Bhupendra Chaubey
Political Journalist and News Anchor

Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist since the year 2000, when he started his career with NDTV. In 2005, he left NDTV and was a part of the team that started CNN News18. As a political journalist he has travelled the length and breadth of the country and has covered three general elections and assembly elections of most states. Bhupendra was the Executive Editor of CNN News18 and used to host the prime time broadcast “India at 9” before turning a Consulting Editor to try his hand at new journalistic platforms. He now hosts a weekend interview show “Hot Seat” where he puts tough questions to key newsmakers.

Kumar Deep Banerjee
Head, External Communications, Vodafone India

Kumar Deep heads the External Communications for Vodafone India where he looks into 360 degrees Stakeholder engagement for reputational brand management. The job entails engagement and interactions with Media, Government, NGO partners, Industry bodies and Thought Leaders to keep the company’s brand reputation intact.

He has over a decade experience in broadcast journalism where he has worked in India’s premiere TV channels like Zee News, Aaj Tak and Bloomberg TV. His last held position was policy Editor Bloomberg TV India. He has extensively reported on Indian economy and interviewed its key stakeholders including ministers and top corporates

Kumar Deep is an avid cook and loves recreating the lost recipes. Reading and music are his other hobbies

A graduate from St. Xavier’s Kolkata and Post graduate from Indian Institute of Mass Communications, JNU, New Delhi

Pooja Pathak
Co-Founder & Director, Media Mantra

Pooja Pathak is the Co- founder and Director at Media Mantra, a fastest growing Indian Independent Public Relations firm in India.

Born and raised in Delhi, Pooja completed her graduation form Miranda House, Delhi University and later went to Australia to complete her post- graduation from Sydney College of Business and IT. She was the first Indian to become the editor for UNYA (United Nations Youth Association), NSW (New South Wales).

She is a successful entrepreneur with immense creativity and business acumen which assists her to undertake diverse roles in life including a businesswomen, a lecturer and a mother of two lovely kids. Today, Pooja has proved that one doesn’t necessarily needs to be born as an entrepreneur.

Having started with a team of 2, Pooja today is successfully leading a young and robust team of more than 50 people. Under her leadership, Media Mantra has evolved into new horizons. Bringing a breadth of knowledge and insight to the table, she has proficiently handled crisis communication for various clients across diverse industries. She was recently invited to speak at Doon Business School of Mass Communication, one of the top ten business schools in North India.

Pooja is a multifaceted personality and a patron of art, culture, education and women empowerment. She continuously supports various causes and NGO’s and ensures to give it back to the society in some way or other.

Sharif Rangnekar
Chairman, Integral PR

A former journalist and researcher, Sharif has led the firm as its CEO for over 10 years before taking over as its Chairman in 2015. He has led image and reputation strategies across sectors and been involved in protecting brands and corporations at the time of crisis.

He has been a three-time President of PRCAI, a former board member of PROI and of ICCO. Named in the PRWeek Global Power Book 2015 as one of the most influential PR professionals in the world, he has been recognised among ‘The 50 most influential people in PR’ in the Asia Power List 2014 and as the '2013 PR Professional of the Year' at the India PR & Corporate Communications Awards 2013.

Sharif has earlier worked with Penguin Books, The Pioneer and The Economic Times. He continues to write and some of his writings/commentary are seen and available in Times of India, Scroll.in, Hindustan Times, Pitch, PR Week, and Huff Post.

He is associated with the #IAmWhoIAm community and the concept band - Friends of Linger. The latter helped him release his first attempt at writing lyrics which turned out to be India's first song in English dedicated to the LGBT community - Head Held High. Most recently, he wrote Miss You - a song that through its music video tells a story of two men in love. The video features him in it as one of the two men!

Vibha Bakshi
National Award Winning Filmmaker

Vibha Bakshi is a National Award winning filmmaker and Co-Producer / Co-Director with Oscar winner Maryann Deleo.

A former business reporter for CNBC, Vibha has studied Journalism and Broadcasting from Boston University and New York University. Vibha’s films have been aired on HBO and Lifetime TV in the United States.

Her films include TERROR AT HOME, a film which was part of the United States Government’s Emmy Award winning campaign to Stop Violence Against Women and TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE, HBO’s highly acclaimed film on Global Warming. Her latest film is ‘DAUGHTERS OF MOTHER INDIA’ is this year’s winner of the National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues, awarded by President of India. This is the highest honour in Indian Films.